Celebrating one nation, peace and national reconciliation

The charity concert by the De Lanerolle Brothers was a stunning success and it was a celebration of peace and reconciliation as the proceeds of the evening goes for a worthy cause to enlighten the young lives of the North and the East. Charismatic Kumar Sangakkara,

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Contemporary Painters

Jagath’s paintings, a lavish display of colours

Jagath Kosmodera hails from the busy environment of a town that offered him a variety of subjects whose art impressed him from his early childhood. He was born in Colombo on April 21, 1963. He showed artistic inclination as a schoolboy and did sketches of birds, animals and human figures on paper,

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Cultural scene

Is speech superior to writing?

In this series on ‘Of Grammatology’ by Derrida, we would further examine the idea that speech or ‘spoken word’ is superior to ‘written word’. we concluded the last week’s column with Pott’s observation that Derrida’s distinction between ‘intelligible/ sensible” provides a ‘natural elaboration of ‘metaphysico-theology’:

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